Historian Ben Wilson (author of What Price Liberty?) interviews Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah (author of An Elegy for Easterly) about liberty and civil rights in Zimbabwe.
Petinah, while you think you learnt a lot about Chinese history and that freedom fighters were influenced a lot by Eastern Europe, have you forgotten how much British and Western history you also learnt and how much the same freedom fighters and all Zimbabweans are influenced by the Western countries for an even longer period of time? I doubt if you learnt as much of Chinese and Russian history as you did British and European history.
Petinah, while you think you learnt a lot about Chinese history and that freedom fighters were influenced a lot by Eastern Europe, have you forgotten how much British and Western history you also learnt and how much the same freedom fighters and all Zimbabweans are influenced by the Western countries for an even longer period of time? I doubt if you learnt as much of Chinese and Russian history as you did British and European history.
rukanda 2 years ago